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Baseball should be ashamed of itself. In the Dodger series Game Six today both teams used seven pitchers going about an inning each. It's disgusting the role of starting pitcher is becoming extinct. Soon in a year or maybe two will all games involve about 7 pitchers going 1 or 1 2/3 innings apiece? So like I said before the future of pitchers is NO CONSIDERATION for Hall of Fame. Cause even closers aren't going to close long enough to rack up a decent amount of career saves. Prices going up, up, up and the quality of baseball players down, down, down. Can u imagine negotiating contracts with these one inning wonders? For instance will Kopech earn a gazillion dollars in his next contract?? For what? An inning a game maybe four games a week? 3-4 games? Sickening times we live in. ... Good thing baseball has a pitch clock cause with all these pitching changes we'd be up to 4.5 hours per game instead of 2:30.

Baseball is full of mediocre to lousy players. Cleveland's bullpen implodes. Somebody told me baseball average batting average is under .250. Shows how impressive the Sox losing 120 games was. It's really difficult to lose that many games in this current environment. How can anybody pay Cease a gazillion dollars in in his next contract after what he did?

Our fave team has been run by buffoons of late. Sad stuff.

Aha this backs my argument that tanking was so dumb. We had some elite pitchers we let go starting with Sale and Quintana. We had Abreu all those years and only needed another thumper to go with the .250ish stiffs. You are saying you can win with two sluggers and this backs my contention the Sox wasted oh, so many years by trying to lose.

But don't you agree their batting averages show they have a lot of Sox-like stiffs? Jazz is awful, Volte, Wells, Berti, Verdugo can't hit, etc.

I don't think the Yankees are a titan team. Although it helps that Judge is starting to connect for two homers this series. Stanton also hit another homer. A bit of improvement for NYY's HR attack.

Exactly. The Yankee bullpen had been hot lately, on a roll, then tonight the two guys Weaver and Holmes who had been hot, both stunk. Both gave up homers that cost NYY the game. I mean remember when closers were considered to be blah closers if they even blew five games in a season? Bobby Jenks, Thiggy lights out for the Sox and all the great closers in baseball? Now a reliever may be OK for a while but ultimately he'll start to suck. Like Erced of the Royals was on a little roll then he got hit. Not sure how a skipper should navigate a bullpen with so many average to lousy relievers.

These long searches are dumb. Just pick a guy. And make it Rick Renteria. Hire him and apologize for getting rid of him before.

Yeah, I watched all the Royals-Yankees games cause I was able to and wanted to see what KCR were about this year. The games were generally boring with everybody waiting for NYY's bats to awaken which they never did. Witt was horrendous and Judge was a joke.

I hear you but I'd personally like the Sox name to die if they leave Chicago. I see no way Illinois will tax the people even more to build an unnecessary baseball stadium this time so if they have to leave they leave. Only hope is if the Sox can convince the government it'll be a boon for that part of the city. Of course in theory it'd hurt another part of the city, Bridgeport.

I agree. This time the climate is different. We've accepted a lot of b.s. going on in our country. The majority of Illinois will accept the Sox leaving. They'll just say, 'Geez guys get a grip. We already have one team in Chicago; let's not get greedy. Give somebody else a team. No big deal. We got a team."

I hope they change their name. No Nashville White Sox b.s. Call em the Nashville Musicians.

Great post. Even though I despise what our Sox have become, selling them to a group that will IMMEDIATELY move 'em to Nashville is distasteful. The Sox are an embarrassing mess but everything u wrote here is true. The end of the JR era has nullified any good will over the 05 title and Bulls dynasty made possible by MJ.

Not bad effort from greg, folks. They had 41 wins and I also had under 50 which is hard to do. I'm a little ashamed I didn't go lower. I knew the team reeked thus me not purchasing mlb.com for the first time in many moons. I'm sure I'll stick with under 50 wins for 2025 cause I don't expect much movement except trading Robert and Crochet and those players we get aren't ready.

There's a lot going on in Chicago right now. Unless it's fake news I've read about companies leaving and people leaving Chicago and the state because of excessive taxes and safety. I read the southside patch. I know about the carjackings, house invasions, robbing u in your own driveway, etc. My point is suburbia might be the way to go if things don't change society wise. Why would a team want to be in the city with its taxes when suburbia beckons close by?

I guess that would be normal rest for Cole right? I didn't add days right.

I watched the ND game. Nice win and use of the star wide receiver. Is Stack a junior? I see he played some QB at the end. Rice has some hard hitters on defense. Can we beat St. Laurence? They seem to rack up a lotta wins this year.

Not sure what Cleveland has in terms of pitching as I don't follow baseball anymore cept for the Sox. And I know the Royals a bit after finally going to two playoff games. If Cleveland can contain Soto/Judge (and Judge looks lost right now) I take the Tribe. I'm thinking five games but I have no facts to back that up. All I know is the Yankees hitters take too many pitches and don't score runs anymore. They have so many lousy hitters. I'll take a Cleveland-LAD World Series. I would say bet the house, but I'd at least bet one month's rent. I would say the Yankee set up man and closer were good versus KC. In this day and age I don't know how reliable relievers will be series to series. I wonder if NYY will go with Cole in game one. That'd be weird to have him pitch again after pitching the clincher in KC.

Baseball is in crisis mode or should be over the age of its fans and demographic. People over 55? Yes. They like/love baseball or used to. I'm thinking those people would support a Sox winner. They would LOVE the ballpark out in Naperville/suburbia somewhere. The island is fine with them. Most games are night games. They are GOING HOME after the games not partying. The island is fine if there is land to build open air parking lots not downtown garages. Young people want no part of baseball. It still is boring to many with all the pitching changes. Granted it's sped up a bit thankfully. Suburbs forever for sports stadiums. Again ... the Dallas Cowboys don't seem to mind having their own mega complex. p.s. Young people who hate baseball to begin with aren't going to head to a new city ballpark to pay for 10 dollar beers before games and eat 30 dollar burgers at the joints by the new stadium. And nobody wants to stay at a 400 dollar a night hotel by the park!

But I say you move the palace of a stadium out there and the people will come. New people who don't wanna navigate the city.

The buildings in the background look very nice but why don't the White Sox do the smart thing for once? Head to suburbia and get Naperville, Lisle or the Arlington Park area to build the Sox a suburban palace? Let the Cubs have the city. The Sox belong in the suburbs. So do the Bears. Ridiculous they don't head out there. The Dallas Cowboys seem to like their suburban complex. Surely suburbia would fork over most of the money to satisfy Jerry. Somebody give me a good reason the Sox don't belong to the suburbs.

I've been thinking about this. The Sox 100 percent are gonna trade Robert and Crochet. The way this organization works with the tank always in play, it makes too much sense for Getz to avoid stockpiling six top prospects (we'll see how top they turn out to be) for the pair of them. Robert will seem more appealing in the winter offseason than he seemed while totally overmatched at the plate during 2024. Somebody indeed with give up three "top" prospects for him. Crochet it goes without saying will bring 3 or 4 prospects. So we'll see how tank No. 2 goes. Those six or seven prospects will allegedly be huge in determining the future of this moribund organization.

Any way Dodger manager is fired if they don't make World Series? If they don't win WS? Sox should wait for him?

This is where baseball statniks so to speak (not you, I respect your posts) slay me. Pham was so hitterish last night. He was ultra valuable no matter what advanced stats say. If all the Royals had his approach to put the ball in play and whack three hits (not trying for homers) they'd have won the game. He was the only guy hitterish. Meanwhile, in game three, the only Yankee to hit was Stanton with three of the four hits. Royals didn't fit Kauffman well. Melendez and Isbel had HRs if they were in Yankee Stadium, deep HRs to right.